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Are You Ready To Show More Of Who You Are? There is No Better Time to Be Your Gifted Self.

I’ll go first.

This week I shared a video on Instagram where I told my IG peeps about a skill I have that I have kept underground for many years. Did you watch it?

Here’s the scoop:

I have been experimenting with channeling sounds, melodies, energies for many years but just shared the experience with friends and a few counseling clients. Channeling? Sounds? Yeah. This is a more intuitive, spiritual side of me.

The sounds vary each time and can be melodic, ethereal, spiritual, shamanic, primal, or funny; usually all of the above. When I sing/channel, people report deep relaxation, meaningful images, spiritual experiences, or particular insights, generally after about 5-10 minutes. The sounds/songs come through me but I have no knowledge of what the listener is experiencing, and yet, I do feel a sweet connection to a loving Source. It has been suggested to me by a few folks that I need to share this beyond my small, safe circle. And, if I admit it to myself, I am curious to know what might develop if I start to offer this channeling to a larger audience.

I have felt weird, freaky, and shy about this over the years but did mention it briefly here on the blog in 2019 when writing about authenticity. A musician on Instagram pointed out to me that it is not odd at all. And when I thought about it, it occurred to me that many musicians, writers, and other artists speak about how their art comes from a Higher Source, channeled through to them. So, I am actually not that unusual!

Here is one person’s experience of my sounds:

“Paula’s sound channeling is mysterious, potent, and powerful. I’ve been working in the spiritual field for ten years and I’ve never encountered anything like it. What blew me away was the immediacy of the ‘result’ of the experience. The first session prompted an instantaneous personal revelation about my relationship to masculinity and a cleansing emotional release simultaneously. I had not wept like that in quite a while. Naturally, I was prepared for a similar experience the second time, but to my delight I was met with a strong and invigorating sense of inspiration regarding the transmutation of anger into creative force. It is absolutely remarkable to me how quickly and how deeply I recognized ‘the message’ when Paula began using what I could only describe as her innate and organic sonic technology. I asked Paula if I could send some clients her way as the thought of not sharing her work felt criminal! …I know it will touch so many in miraculous ways.” nyoka

So, here is my plan: I am exploring ways to record the sounds for sharing on social media. This will take some time. (I have a few samples on Sound Cloud that I put up years ago but they never got any traction. At that time I called them Sound Memes for Your Rainforest Mind.) I am now on TikTok (yes, really) because it was suggested I could reach younger folks who might need to be soothed and nourished by the sounds. I will post on YouTube where I have shared other videos, so if you are limiting your social media, you can find me there. Of course, I will maintain this blog for my usual posts. Don’t worry. I won’t stop writing! After all, I am not ready to become a rock star and open for Pink concerts just yet. I might add a page to the blog with testimonials and news about the channeling. Maybe some samples.

I am not sure if the sounds will resonate with listeners when I just create generic songs. I believe the power comes when I am singing for a particular person. To that end, I am in the process of designing a way for people to contact me if they want a personal 5-10 minute channeling session. Typically, the best way to reach me is by email but I want to be able to manage requests without being overwhelmed and I’m not sure what I’ll charge for individual sessions. So, more to come on that as I figure it out.

OK, dear rainforesters, now it is your turn. You are multipotentialites. You have many interests and abilities. What have you been hiding from us? What has felt weird and freaky that really needs to be expressed? What parts of you have been waiting for their rock star moment?

There is no better time.

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To my bloggEEs: Let us know what you think of all this! Tell us about your hidden talents. Thank you for being here. Always love. All ways.

And, speaking of still writing, my third book is now being edited! The cover design process starts this week. So exciting! Just a reminder, it is a journal titled Saving Your Rainforest Mind: A Guided Journal for the Exceedingly Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive. I will keep you posted on progress and when you can order it. Of course, if you don’t have books one and two, what are you waiting for?

(Note: Any of you techy-musical folks who have ideas on how I might set this up with a mic (that has reverb?) and special setting/lighting, how to video for easy sharing on social media, and other tips, please email me.)

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Author: Paula Prober

I’m a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice based in Eugene, Oregon. I specialize in international consulting with gifted adults and parents of gifted children. I’ve been a teacher and an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon and a frequent guest presenter at Oregon State University and Pacific University. I’ve written articles on giftedness for the Eugene Register-Guard, the Psychotherapy Networker, Advanced Development Journal and online for psychotherapy dot net, Rebelle Society, Thrive, Introvert Dear, and Highly Sensitive Refuge. My first book, Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth, is a collection of case studies of gifted clients along with many strategies and resources for gifted adults and teens. My second book, Journey Into Your Rainforest Mind: A Field Guide for Gifted Adults and Teens, Book Lovers, Overthinkers, Geeks, Sensitives, Brainiacs, Intuitives, Procrastinators, and Perfectionists is a collection of my most popular blog posts along with writing exercises for self-exploration and insight.

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    […] you to the story behind Song Memes for your rainforest mind. (Note: I first mentioned this in a post in February 2023. The page and offering are new so I’m writing this version […]

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  3. renovatio06 Avatar
    renovatio06

    Hi Paula,

    I commend you on “coming out” with your so far more concealed gifts and talents and went straight to your Soundcloud profile to listen to the previously recorded song memes (and left comments). They immediately reminded me a bit of some of the “icaros” I heard sung by Shamans in the Amazon during Ayahuasca rituals and also guiding the “soujourner” towards realms that are beneficial to them and to assist them and protect them from darker entities or energies. Very inspiring and beautifully done!

    I’m not sure, what other gifts I might still discover or come across, maybe I’ve been having them without even regarding them as such (some of them probably born with, others acquired). The more obvious ones, like my inclination towards music and hopefully some talent there since toddler years and even in the womb according to my mother, I sought to develop as best as I could (and continue to do so, you’re never “finished” honing a skill, right? :-)). Writing, language, like I said, the ones I was able to identify or which others brought to my attention, I have been seeking to express and develop as best as possible.

    I could imagine, though, that with continued healing with regard to the lingering outcomes of early incurred trauma I might “break through” into realms like your intuitive singing/mediumship/clairvoyance/remote viewing, whatever name we give those abilities. In fact, I recently came across the YouTube channel of a so–called “interspecies communicator”, Ms. Anna Breytenbach, who discovered her ability to communicate with the animal domain over the course of a series of wilderness “tracking” seminars with experienced wilderness experts and have been semi–following her channel and documentaries since. Her point: She claims that we were all endowed with those gifts, but sadly have lost connection with our intuitive selves due to our technocentric Western lifestyles and our reliance on digital devices and gadgets of all kinds. She keeps saying that we had better restored our connection with the natural world and in fact the cosmos by remembering and developing our intuitive senses and integrate them with our day to day routines more. It immediately resonated with me and I think our species is at a decisive point of needing to heed her gentle reminder so we can reclaim a much deeper and more meaningful quality of life while incarnated in these meat–and–bones “suits” of ours 😉

    Anyway, before I start writing a book chapter’s worth, I just felt like saying “kudos” and that you’re always full of new surprises 🙂 Thanks much for so generously sharing your gifts here and elsewhere and with the rest of us! I think I’m safe to say that we all appreciate you. O:-)

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      Thank you for heading over to Sound Cloud, renovatio06, and for your feedback about the sounds. Others have said similar things. It’s still a bit hard for me to acknowledge the nature of what might be coming through me. What you say about healing from trauma is an important point. I believe that I am able to do what I do now because I have worked through layers of family and ancestral trauma.

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  4. P.M. Avatar
    P.M.

    Cool. Welcome. And congratulations opening your heart for this. Don’t let it get to hurt as many won’t understand and adolescents can be ruthless.
    Sounds like powwow. Music played on the one. The most basic and simultaneously the most complicated timing there is.
    If you haven’t got a setup allready and are drowning in possibility’s I’ll gladly give advice. Just mail me. I love this kind of sound. Good luck!

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      I did send you an email reply. You did not get it? Did you listen on Sound Cloud? A musical friend of mine added the instruments. I would love to hear from you. Maybe check your spam folder for my response?

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  5. David Avatar
    David

    This is so brave and vulnerable Paula (not to mention gloriously weird, hehe). Talk about leading by example! It also shows how broad the modalities are for intuition and healing; your singing clearly helps people in complementary ways to the books/blog. Thank you for sharing and good luck getting it out there!

    So, freaky hidden talents: I have extremely vivid dreams/hypnagogia, and an ability to induce “waking visions” based on them. Sometimes I find a phrase or image particularly cool, work it into something concrete, and put it on a “secret” tumblr:

    https://caedrix.tumblr.com/

    The name of the tumblr, “caedrix feuilleton”, is an example. I don’t know what it means (it might have something to do with the Anglo-Saxon poet Cædmon and The Glass Bead Game, but then again, it might not). It appeared in a dream as the name of book of prophecies, filled with “line after line of inspired polylingual gibberish, written by a dead man from the future”. The whole thing fascinates but also scares me a little.

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      I think what we are calling “freaky hidden talents” scare us because we may be tapping into something as yet undiscovered? (at least known by traditional science or consensus reality??) or something “from the future?” Thank you for sharing. I will check it out.

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      1. David Avatar
        David

        Definitely something bigger than us, which we can’t explain and don’t control. It takes courage to lean into it and let the process take over, and even more to show it to the world!

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        1. pprober Avatar
          pprober

          It is particularly difficult when you are in the profoundly gifted zone, where you are David, so that the complexity of what you share is so often not understood.

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          1. David Avatar
            David

            Thank you Paula. I often think about the coupled problems of receivability and intelligibility — how people tend to reject things they don’t understand — and when something is both “freaky” and in the PG zone, it is particularly hard for people to grok! I think that, rather than look for people who grok, I’m trying to find people who can receive without needing to grok, if that makes sense. Decouple the problems!

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            1. pprober Avatar
              pprober

              Yes, David, that does make sense. People can love you without understanding many of your deeply complex cognitions. They surely need emotional and spiritual depth, self-awareness, capacity to listen and communicate, for example, but they don’t necessarily need to know string theory or AI design. Right?

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              1. David Avatar
                David

                That’s so beautifully put 🙂 Exactly! To love without first understanding — without feeling threatened or minimized — calls for aspects of personhood and development that seem more rare and precious than, say, an understand of string theory. In a way, this is similar to the openness needed to accept “freaky hidden talents”! You need enough self to accept the bigger thing without feeling it will obliterate you.

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                1. pprober Avatar
                  pprober

                  Yes! Yes!

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  6. Marina Avatar
    Marina

    Thank you, Paula, for sharing this with us! I am very impressed… I do admire people who can heal, that is a wonderful gift. I will keep an eye (and ear) open for your sounds!
    For my part, I regularly receive ‘visitors’ who have passed away but who are stuck between our world and the next (whatever that is), as they are not ready to accept death and are in deep pain and frustration about leaving their bodies (often victims of accidents or serious illness). They stay with me for some time, sometimes just a few days, sometimes longer. And then they leave. This is really something that I have never told anybody. Once I tried to tell a friend, and she totally freaked out, so I decided never to speak about it again to anybody (and here I go, writing about it on the Web, hahaha!). When I was a child, I did not know how to explain these ‘visitors’ and they frightened me terribly, so I told my mother: “There is a skeleton in the wardrobe”. She opened the wardrobe, flinging the doors open and said: “Look, there’s nobody there!”. But I knew she was wrong. There was somebody there, even though it was hard to see. Now it does not frighten me anymore, and I try to be a comfort to my visitors whenever they appear.

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      I have heard about this, Marina, and I believe you! There is so much going on in our world that is not visible in our experience of “ordinary reality.” I believe this is actually good news. Thank you for sharing! It seems that many rainforest minds have more experiences of the paranormal or intuitive/psychic.

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    2. renovatio06 Avatar
      renovatio06

      I’ve heard of similar stories quite a bit in the past, Marina, and I’ve heard from others with this gift that these “trapped souls” (or stuck ones) benefit from sending them reassuring thoughts of peace and comfort so they get to resolve their anguish on their own. Because the cosmos must respect free will, always, and hence they need to resolve whatever “carry on” they brought along into the ethereal realms until they are “cleared” for proceeding (with other helpers always standing by for when that moment occurs).

      I am aware that all of this will sound like complete hogwash to anyone firmly rooted in the dualist, materialist, still somewhat Newton-informed, tech–centric world view. However, as much as it frightens me as well, I’ve had to come to the realization that these phenomena are indeed a part of our reality like everything we touch, smell, sense or feel. So I can only commend you on having arrived the bravery of no longer letting these visitors scare you and from what I hear, the best they get to take away from it is the sense that wonderful realms of light, love and possibly reconnection with already passed on ones await them as soon as they’re ready for acceptance of another sphere of reality. Kudos!

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      1. pprober Avatar
        pprober

        Thank you, renovatio06!

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  7. Elinevanantwerpen Avatar
    Elinevanantwerpen

    This deed and blog of yours is inspiring, Paula!

    I’ve got healing hands. I know this because someone told my father he had those, and I tought: well, maybe me too! In the Tibetan book of living and dying, I got a manual. Soygal Rinpoche calls it “tonglen” and it’s merely breathing in: ‘pulling’ the pain out of one, breathing out: ‘passing through’ warmth and love. It doesn’t consume my energy, yes, it’s being channeled or something.
    I’ve tried it on animals. They look at me like “how does one of you stupid humans know this?” and afterwards they relax. When they’re tired of it they walk away. One stressed out dog is always so happy to see me, I do it on her without anyone noticing. I also tested it on my husband when he was tossing and turning in bed, two breahts and he was fast asleep! And on one friend who I trusted with it, he says it is sooo calming.

    Might go out and invite more people to let me know how it feels… 🙂

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      Healing hands! Yes!!

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  8. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    Very cool, Paula! I’ll check it out. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🎶

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      🙂

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  9. Ascanius Avatar
    Ascanius

    I followed you on Instagram right after reading it. It would also be recommended for others.

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      Thank you, Ascanius!

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  10. Rochelle lalala Avatar
    Rochelle lalala

    Paula! This is brilliant and definitely reveals even more of your raw beauty! I make and record music(that I never share) so your unveiled work is also inspiring to a challenging degree. If you’d like any tech help with recording, editing, adding effects or anything else consider me a resource(also currently working on a Music Production degree, so I guess this would be a relevant space to mention that ;)). Either way I hope you keep putting your wonderful sounds out for others to utilize. Again, again, again… THANK YOU for sharing<3

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      Oh my, Rochelle. Thank you for the offer. I am gathering names and emails of people who might have some of the skills I need so will put you on the list. You may be hearing from me! I was telling a friend that when I started blogging in 2014, I had no idea that it would lead to books, new dear friends, and fans around the world. It just felt right to start. This has a similar vibe so I’m following it and we shall see where it leads. 🙂

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      1. Rochelle lalala Avatar
        Rochelle lalala

        Hopefully it grows into something nourishing for you and everyone it touches, just like your blogging! My current studies are with the hopes of eventually opening some type of Music Therapy practice, so I am loving this work of yours and definitely willing to support it in any way(s) possible. So glad you shared and wanting to evolve your gift of healing sounds. Feel free to contact me if you feel inclined- this is the exact type of gift our world needs 🙂

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        1. pprober Avatar
          pprober

          Thank you, Rochelle. I have your email so will be contacting you soon.

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  11. Hayduke Avatar
    Hayduke

    That’s really cool, Paula that you’re becoming aware of your full abilities as a healer. The world certainly needs a return of healers, so good for you! As someone for whom conventional medicine and therapy rarely works, I’m interested to see where this goes. As for my myself, I’m sensitive to light and have an intuitive ability to pick up on the well being of those around me (human and otherwise), which I experience as sort of shadows or shifting light textures. I’m reasonably OK at using this information to help plants and animals because I find them to be mostly open and honest. People not so much.

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    1. pprober Avatar
      pprober

      Thank you, Hayduke. I’m not sure I’d use the word “healer” to describe myself… As I think about this, I do love the idea of inspiring others to access their healing capacities because there is such a need. Keep doing what you’re doing!

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      1. Nancy Graham Avatar
        Nancy Graham

        Hi Paula and anyone else reading.
        First of all, I know someone from Eugene who did this work. She is no longer living, but she published a book about it called, “Sounding the Sound Body”. Her name was Rinchena Khardo (aka Barbara). You can still find some of these around. I did all the illustrations for the book. The book is a different approach than what it sounds it is like for you, but she also did do what you are doing, as well.

        My little “secret” thing I do is intuitive readings, as well as mediumship. It came natural to me as a child, especially after I had an out of body experience at 4 years old during surgery. I have been doing this on the side well over 30 years now. For 4 years straight while I lived in Eugene in the late 80’s/early 90’s, I wrote every week and mailed it out as a newsletter with drawings (I am an artist also). I would just sit down and ask, “What do people most need to know right now?”, then I would follow the words and write them down. It took a tremendous amount of trust in myself. I still have all these newsletters (approximately 208 consisting of 4 8X10 pages each). Every now and then, I consult them like a book. I am just beginning to consider how I might share this information with others today. It’s a tough thing to figure out., but I’m working on it.

        Here is my website for my readings. I have never promoted myself. I just put it out there and if someone finds me, I’ll help them. And, that is how I hide. Shetalkswithangels.com

        Thanks, Paula, for bringing this up! And, I would definitely use the word “healer” for you.
        Nancy

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        1. pprober Avatar
          pprober

          Oh, you were in Eugene! I will look for the book and check out your site. Thank you Nancy.

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